Projects

The project work of the Global Pharma Health Fund (GPHF) is currently focussing on the GPHF-Minilab® for rapid drug quality verification and easy counterfeit medicines detection.

The GPHF-Minilab® is a compact, portable toolbox that allows quick, reliable testing of more than 40 standard medicines, showing whether or not the right quantity of active ingredient is present. The toolbox has been specifically designed for use in developing countries that are heavily affected by counterfeit medicines and are lacking the facilities for effective medicine testing.

The project work of the Global Pharma Health Fund fosters worldwide cooperation. Promoters and project partners are the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva and major NGOs from the US, for example Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and the Drug Quality and Information programme of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP DQI).

Support comes also from the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and faith-based organisations, for example, from the Medical Mission Institute Würzburg, the medicines relief organisation action medeor and the German Doctors for Developing Countries.

The project is managed by Dr. Richard W. O. Jähnke, a qualified manufacturing pharmacist with a master in business administration. He is responsible for Minilab development, implementation, information and training. Within WHO Roll Back Malaria partnership and US Pharmacopeia Drug Quality and Information programmes, he has trained dozens of people in the Minilab’s operation procedures in Africa and Asia.

He can be contacted directly at the GPHF project office as follows: